The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-10-27
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
PERSONS MD THINGS STHRoUGuoUr
NORTH CAROLINA.

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! Senator Vance will be at the Fay-
etteville Fair on Nov 10th.
Messrs. j. G. and r. F. Upton will
conduct new paper in Salisbury.
! The coal mines of Chatham. after
long years are again to be opened up
and operated.
a company will shortly begin the
manufacture of buckets, barrels, etc.
at Morganton.
Haywood county has voted $780,
O00 to the Carolina, Knoxville and
Western Railroad.
The County Commissioners of
Edgecombe have given the Guard
800. Can't Forsyth do Iikawise ?
Ex-Governor Wade Hampton, of
South Carolina, will speak at the
Weldon Fair on Nov. 4th.
It is reported that w. r. Blackwell.
of Durham will go to Washington
City and invest in real estate as a bu.
| mess.
During the past t,rei7e mouths
twelve cotton factorieo have been
established III North Carolina. The
average Pr TT il 25 per cent.
Ihe Davidson college boys have
boy cotted every merchant in Davidson
and Charlotte who Dc not pssronizs
their magazine.
Gov. scales has been invited to at
tend the unveiling OF the Lee monu-
ment, but his engagements 1T the Hick-
DRY Fair prevents his acceptance.
Mr.. Robert j. Shipp, young law
Yer Of Newton, has moved with his
family 10 Charlotte Mr.. Shipp will
engage III the practice of law.
We regret to learn that Chief JUS
ticc Smith is quite H.! The whole
people Of the State will hope for
speedy recovery of this learned and
upright Jut ge.
a committee met Gov. Scale. last
Thursday and proposed to extend the
&. " n. G. IL. r., from Goldsboro to
Sanford. The Governor has the pro-
pofal under consideration.
Ir. Charley Armstrong, a popular
young merchant of Lowell, and Mis-.
porcas Jenkins, of Gastonia, were
married by Rev. j. j. Kennedy, at
the Falls House Thursday night.
Ring the bells, bIo4eathe -r.ms
horns, for North Carolina is not to be
dlsgraced by the presence of John
sherman and Billy Malone at the col
ored Fair. They have declined. Coed
X young man by the name of Berry
Taylor, from Goldsboro, was run over
BY a train near the Raleigh Fair
grounds last Wednesday. He died
from hi. wounds Thursday morning.
Mrs. Phoebe Ross has donated to
The Guilford Battle Ground Associa
tion plot Of ground on which stands
the perslmmon tree under which Lord
CORVALLIS was when the horse he was
riding was shot and killed.
On Friday afternoon, in the Pres
byterian church, at Rock Hill, s. c..
Mr.. A. NJ. Young. popular young
business man of Charlotte WAS mar
ried to Miss Bessie Caldwell, one of
Rock Hill's most popular young ladies
the ceremony being performed by
Rev. j. B. Jennings.
Adjutant- General Jones has COM
pleted the roster Of North Carolina
soldiers in the war with Mexico. Your
correspondent has seen the rolls, and
they will make printed volume of
some % pages, 400 copies Of which
will be Issued in the course.of the next
thirty days. Cor. Messenger.
Mr.. ID. f. Stevens writes TO the
Goldzboro argus that if every family
in the country would plant as nuch rs
one-cighth or one-tourth Of an acre Of
good land in cane, it would make ali
the COCO mol&sses they want, end
thereby save the county the nice little
sum OF about fifty thousand dollars r
year.
We don't know how it happened,
but anyway the SENTINEL overlooked
the election Of officers Of the Farmers
Alliance held at Rockingham some
days ago. Here they are: President
f. B. Alexander, of Mecklenburg
county Vice. President-T. Ivey, OF
Robson county; Seeretary-Col. l..
l.. Polk, of Raleigh; Treasurer.
w. 4 Hen, Of Wake county.
Ex-Judge Henry B. Folk, who was
born III BERTHE county, n. c., gradu
ated at Wake Forest in 1849 and re-
moved to Brunswick, Tenn, where
he was leading attorney and Judge,
has recently been ordained to the
ministry. BY invitation he preached
last week at Goldsboro and Whining
ton. 1t is thought he will be called
to the pastorate of the Goldsboro Bap-
tist church.
Miss Annie Mcfarland, daughter
of ex Sheriff Mcfarland, of Cleveland
county was to have been married sew
eral days ago at Forest City. The
bride was ready, the feast spread, and
the minister looking as solemn as usu-
al, but the groom didn't come-he
had suddenly gone visiting in South
Carolina There was no marriage.
"For now, alas, he's left me
Falero, lero loo.'
He has since returned, but isn't
able to give satisfactory explana-
ton.